DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 699 
E. Bot. 686. 
Stem nearly three feet high, upright, leafy, quadrangular, rough with hairs 
pointing downwards. Leaves sessile, opposite, varying in figure and 
breadth. Spikes terminal, panicled, sharpish, composed of numerous 
dense whorls, with but little space between even the lowermost: each 
whorl accompanied by a pair of tapering, projecting, awl-shaped JloraU 
leaves , the lowermost of which are dilated at the base. Calyx small, 
hairy all over with tapering teeth, longer than the tube. Blossom twice 
as long as the calyx, hairy, of a pale lilac colour. Stamens inclosed 
within the blossom. The whole herb has a strong aromatic smell, is of 
a hoary or greyish green, and clothed with soft hairs. 
-Var. 1. Leaves spear-shaped, acute. 
M. sylvesti'is. Linn.— M.villosa prima, Sole. Menth. 3. t. 1-—ZW. 96—Ger. 
Em. 684. 3 —J. B. iii. 221. 
Var. 2. Leaves egg-shaped, acute. 
M. villosa secunda } Sole. Menth. 5. t. 2— FI. Dan. 484— Riv. Mon. 51. 1—« 
•Fuchs. 292— Cam. Epit. 479. 
By the water side at Bottisham Load mill, Cambridgeshire; in the house- 
close of an Inn at Hillington, Middlesex. Frequent in Hertfordshire. 
Sole. 
Var. 3. Leaves.shorter; spikes blunter. Plentiful in Kent. 
Var. 4. Leaves elliptical, broad, and blunt. 
M. rotundifolia , Sole. Menth. 9. t. 4— Fuchs. 289. 
In Kent and Essex, but rare. Eleven miles from Norwich in the road to 
Hingham. Mr. Crowe. At Thorpe, near Norwich. E.) 
Horse Mint. Marshy and watery places. Burwelbeck. Lincolnshire; 
behind the alms-houses at Great Yeldham, Essex. Lewisham, Kent; be¬ 
tween Ripley and Guildford. Bungay, frequent. Mr. Woodward. Thorn, 
Yorkshire. Mr. Robson. P. Aug. 
(M. rotundifo'lia. Spikes somewhat hairy, interrupted: leaves 
roundish, blunt, wrinkled, scolloped, downy beneath: floral- 
leaves spear-shaped. E.) 
E. Bot. 446— Sole. Menth. 7. t. 3 —Riv. Mon. 51. 2— J.B. iii. 219. 2. 
Leaves rather serrated than scolloped. Whole plant woolly, grass green. 
Flowers pale red, much resembling those of the preceding species. Stems 
two to three feet high, upright, square, hairy or shaggy, the hairs point¬ 
ing more or less downwards. Leaves underside shaggy, not hairy; all 
the veins fringed with close hairs. Spikes several, terminal, upright, 
sharpish, not very densely whorled. Calyx small, bell-shaped, covered 
with rough hairs. Stamens much longer than the blossom. The whole 
het'b strong smelling, and tending to viscidity. Leaves occasionally 
variegated with white. E.) 
Round-leaved Mint. (Welsh: Mintys lledcrynddail. E.) M. rotun¬ 
difolia. M. crispa. Linn. M. sylvcstris. Sole. Watery places. River¬ 
side, at Lydbrook, near Ross, Hertfordshire; near Falkburn Hall, Es¬ 
sex. Ray. Near Hally, Kent. Doody. Hornsey and Harefield church¬ 
yards. Blackstone. Near Saltburn, Yorkshire, by the sea, in a dry sandy 
place. Mr. Robson. (On the edge of an old moat at Shingham, Norfolk* 
